What’s new in SolarWinds SAM

The What’s New in SolarWinds SAM resource provides a summary of the new features of the current SolarWinds SAM release. Each new feature listed includes links to more information, knowledge base articles, documentation, or feature pages within the Orion Web Console. You can remove or add this resource anytime to your SAM Summary page.

Learn more about this release including cloud monitoring, fixed issues, and more!

Learn more about SAM 6.5

SAM 6.5 expands your ability to leverage the cloud further by adding support for Microsoft Azure accounts in addition to existing Amazon AWS support. Now you can use Azure or AWS accounts, or a mixture of both.

To support hybrid environments, the Orion Platform can retrieve data from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud service platforms for cloud instances and VMs that can be used to track availability, performance, applications, and more. Examples of data gathered include status, storage capacity, memory usage, and IP addresses.

PerfStack 2.0 — New features and improvements

Zoom into PerfStack charts to view more details for a selected time period

Alert visualization improvements

Each individual alert start/end time is now visualized separately in PerfStack

Existing aggregate alert visualization against an object is retained

Export PerfStack data to Excel

Share PerfStack functionality to make it more discoverable with new Share button

New SolarWinds Orion Installer

Install and upgrade one or more Orion Platform products simultaneously with the SolarWinds Orion Installer

Modern interface with a simplified design and intuitive workflow

Download and install only what is needed

Reduces download size and accelerates installation

Other improvements

Add database wait time and metric data from Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) to any Orion PerfStack chart, allowing you to mix and match data from applications, networks, and infrastructure with wait time performance metrics

Linux Agent for ARM-based devices such as Raspberry Pi

New SAM templates for Microsoft products

Search integrated into global navigation

Improved dashboard view customization and Manage Nodes page

Support for High Availability (HA) 2.0 including multi-subnet deployments (WAN/DR)

Previous SAM releases

SAM 6.4 Release Notes: Check out the additional features found in the previous SAM 6.4 release, including Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring for AWS instances, Performance Analysis dashboard (PerfStack), import nodes from file, enhancements for the Orion agent for Linux, muting alerts, critical and warning status for alerts, and more.